Introduction
This guide is intended to show activists how to host a film screening.
Overview
Hosting a film screening is an effective outreach tool for any cause-based movement.
Considerations
How do I organize a screening?
Where should a screening be hosted?
How do I promote a screening?
Should I sell tickets to the screening?
How do I introduce a screening?
How do I engage the audience after the screening has concluded?
Organization
Who: The Toronto Screenwriters Meet-Up Group (TSMG) is an active community-minded group which meets to discuss, develop and collaborate on screenwriting for all mediums.
TSMG provides guidance, contacts and support in all areas of the field. Offering members opportunities to receive critical feedback on works-in-progress, as well as to network and market their work, TSMG is open to screenwriters of all levels of experience, from the beginner to the pro.
Admission: $5.00 CDN to TSMG members. Become a member for FREE at: http://www.meetup.com/screenwriters-240
RSVP: Limited 20 seats available
The Trans Film Screening Series presents a FREE event
co-presented with the Trans Pride Committee
Everyone welcome. Allies welcome.
► Glitter skirts and Shorts offers an evening of short films celebrating works created by trans-identified or gender queer artists, showcasing trans representation or speaking to trans issues and politics. From documentary to performance art - come enjoy an evening of art, creativity, inspiration and voice. Featuring works by Alec Butler, Ivan E. Coyote, James Diamond, Kenji Tokawa, Theodore Boutet, Viva Delorme, Rébecca Lavoie & Kim Maurice, Vjosana Shkurti, Asian Community AIDS Services and more . . .
Wheelchair accessible
Terrence Malick's film, The Tree of Life, opens today. It won the Palme d'or at Cannes, a big prestigious deal. Like his others, it inspires something nearer reverence than mere respect: for its "audacity and vision" in "excavating primal, eternal meanings" and for its "sheer beauty."
These abstractions are like the solemn voice-overs in his films, which scatter words like evil, wicked, "the spark." There are always gorgeous shots of nature that you tend to be aware of as gorgeous. I don't mean there's anything phony in his obsessions; he's a Christian seeker who makes lush films he agonizes over. For critics they may come as relief after too many movies about hangovers and superheroes.
Do you have a completed first draft of your latest script? You may feel that it is your opus, and is perfect as-is...
My stubborn post-election depression took me to see Thor this weekend. Okay, I admit I love superheroes. But this isn't just a guilty pleasure. I'm on a quest to decipher the electorate's psyche through the heart of Thor.
All that mythic content in the hands of a Shakespeare master (director Kenneth Branagh) -- c'mon, the film's surely going to shed light on the unconscious masculine archetypes shaping popular politics. And sure enough, buried in this paramilitary fantasy, I fall knee-deep into politics and power.
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